Chapter 60: I Haven't Even Tried to Scam Them Yet
The next morning, the staff members found Arthur and his team to remind them to start the live stream.
To their surprise, Arthur had no intention of staying on the island.
"Let's head straight out to sea. You've already got the sailboat ready, right?"
Head straight out to sea? Are you crazy?
The support staff were all shocked.
According to the original live stream plan, they could spend the first day strolling around Crescent Island.
But Arthur said bluntly, "I already asked about it yesterday. Dragonite and Milotic won't appear here. There's no point in staying any longer."
Dragonite and Milotic were the true leaders of this protected area and the rare Pokémon that people generally wanted to see. You couldn't find them just anywhere.
Unfortunately, Arthur had learned yesterday while wandering around that as the management of the protected area, these two Pokémon species didn't need to come to the stalls in person. The Alliance would arrange special personnel to handle transactions with them, providing one-on-one exclusive service.
Perhaps this was the privilege of the powerful...
Without these two rare Pokémon, Arthur honestly felt that Crescent Island had little to offer.
Although there were many Pokémon selling marine specialties here, during the open period, this place was like an antique market, with more people trying to find bargains than those selling treasures.
The rest of the team naturally had no objections to Arthur's suggestion.
Their rented sailboat was already eager to set sail.
Soon, the entire team boarded and set off.
The sailboat was small, but it had a lot of equipment, including diving suits, underwater cameras, signal antennas, underwater spearguns, miniature underwater robots, and even two torpedoes.
When they noticed Arthur's strong interest in the torpedoes, the accompanying support staff quickly stopped him.
"These are only rented as a precaution. It's best not to use them... no, you absolutely must not use them!"
The torpedoes on the boat were just rented by the team to provide a sense of security. To put it bluntly, they were for show. If they were actually launched, the team would have to pay the difference upon returning them.
This made Arthur quite disappointed.
He was actually quite interested in testing the power of military weapons in this era.
But the others on the team looked at him strangely.
They wondered if this kid was normal.
Who would actually be interested in blowing up high-explosive torpedoes as their first priority when going out to sea?
They had been looking for a streamer with a bold personality, but this time they were starting to have doubts.
Was the streamer they had chosen a bit too bold?
Fortunately, the exploration live stream finally started as scheduled.
Initially, only Arthur appeared on camera, with a professional photographer filming him. Justin, as his assistant, stayed behind to monitor the live stream comments and remind Arthur to interact with the audience.
Thanks to the extensive pre-promotion, various platforms provided traffic support and even homepage promotion, so a large number of viewers flooded in as soon as the stream started.
However, after the initial wave of meaningless comments like "here," "first," "top 100," and "top 10,000" subsided, Justin, watching the real-time comments from behind, increasingly felt that something was wrong.
Because a large number of comments were cheerfully discussing "when will this ship capsize?"
"When will the streamer go underwater and eat a Gyarados alive?"
"Why is it so calm? This is false advertising!"
"Hurry up and have a shipwreck! I want to see a shipwreck, I want to see a shipwreck!!"
This...
Justin felt something was amiss.
"Aren't we supposed to be broadcasting a sea exploration? What's with the shipwreck?"
He turned to ask the support staff.
The organizers' support staff could only offer awkward but polite smiles.
"Well... it might be related to some of our pre-promotion... it's all small stuff, don't worry about it."
"Really?"
Justin's suspicion only deepened.
In fact, the keywords emphasized by their production team during the pre-promotion were "thrilling," "exciting," and "heart-pounding."
Only in this way could they grab people's attention.
But the promotional effect was too good, and the big-name streamers and those with high traffic that they had initially invited were scared away. Otherwise, this job wouldn't have fallen to a small-time streamer like Arthur.
Justin narrowed his eyes at them.
"You guys wouldn't do anything crazy in the middle of the show for the sake of viewership, would you?"
He had heard that these production teams, in pursuit of more realistic live stream effects, wouldn't even inform the streamers before causing trouble.
"Haha, of course not, you're overthinking things."
The support staff uncle laughed very heartily, or at least, he sounded very sincere.
Justin still stared at him suspiciously.
At the same time, his Pidgeotto had been flying high in the sky, gliding alongside their sailboat, constantly scouting the surrounding sea.
This high-altitude surveillance finally gave him some reassurance.
"I hope so."
But just as Justin finally relaxed, he suddenly heard Arthur at the bow of the boat say, "Let's steer a bit southeast."
The staff member piloting the sailboat asked strangely, "Why? This direction is the shortest route to the next island."
"Heading southeast will take us further away from the mainland and deeper into the open sea. That way, we're more likely to encounter some fierce marine Pokémon."
As soon as he said this, both the boat and the live stream chat fell silent.
Justin didn't know if the live stream chat got excited, but he himself was definitely dumbfounded.
The staff member who had just answered him spread his hands innocently, as if to say, this wasn't his doing.
He hadn't even tried to trick him yet, and someone had already voluntarily chosen the route with the most views.
"Dude, what are you thinking?"
Justin asked, holding up his tablet with an expression that said "you're weird, something's wrong with you."
Because the live stream was still running, he tried to avoid speaking loudly, so his voice wouldn't be picked up.
Arthur, however, explained on camera very frankly.
"Only by going into dangerous waters are we more likely to find something worthwhile. In this low-risk area, even if there are treasures, they've probably already been picked up by those intelligent Pokémon. After the opening of the barter trade, they already know what humans need. There's little chance of us finding any leftovers."
What he said was indeed reasonable.
But at this moment, not only Justin, but the entire team on the boat, including the production crew, looked at Arthur with an expression that said "you're weird, something's wrong with you."
If the camera wasn't rolling, they might have rushed over to cover his mouth.
The reason was simple—
You're speaking too much damn truth!
The support staff uncle, who had been happy that someone had taken the bait without any prompting, quickly held up a tablet covered in exclamation marks.
"Careful what you say!!! Careful what you say!!!"
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